Brandavan Food Products, a private vendor IRCTC has hired to handle hospitality services aboard Tejas Express, has not reinstated 20 employees it had dismissed.
Former civil servants Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah write that we in India revere success and wealth. We assume good HR practices in TCS will work in govt.
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Consumer affairs ministry’s proposal could first be tested on premium trains such as Tejas Express & Vande Bharat Express. Experts are, however, are sceptical about move.
Investor demand exceeded IRCTS's shares on offer by 112 times, the best IPO of the four companies from the Indian Railways stable that have gone public.
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
It sounds more like knee jerk reaction to merge all railway Cadres as one, than well thought and planned decision. Majority of the activity of Railway is technical in nature, be it manufacturing of engines/coaches, design and development of new rail technologies, be it maintenence or traffic and signalling…these activities can not be supervised by officials of commercial and accounts cadres. Railway is bound to make quasi departmentalisation otherwise only confusion and job misfit will prevail…
It sounds more like knee jerk reaction to merge all railway Cadres as one, than well thought and planned decision. Majority of the activity of Railway is technical in nature, be it manufacturing of engines/coaches, design and development of new rail technologies, be it maintenence or traffic and signalling…these activities can not be supervised by officials of commercial and accounts cadres. Railway is bound to make quasi departmentalisation otherwise only confusion and job misfit will prevail…